Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Barnier gives May a lifeline" video.

Rubbish, Barnier is not offering Mrs May a life line, he is trying to get the terms of leaving agreed before the March deadline. Barnier wants to ensure the UK signs up to paying the divorce bill. The UK government would be foolish to abandon the principle that nothing is agreed until all is agreed. If the UK leaves without an agreement, there is no obligation for the UK to pay the EU anything.
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@josedourado3747 no, read article 50, or the law lords report. The UK has no obligation to pay the EU anything post brexit. Brexit will happen no matter what the EU does. That is why Barnier is so keen to get the deal signed. No dea,l no pay.
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@ga21351 and how is this a threat. The EU is not providing a deal now. More importantly we import from the eu many times more than we export to the eu, to the tune of £80 billion. Block this trade and you will be doing the UK a favour. The rules of article 50 are clear, if we leave without a deal, the default terms come into force. These state that the UK liability ends on brexit day. Business is business, meaning that no other country will blame the UK for not paying that which it does not legally owe. No deal, no pay.
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@choomickle623 you are confusing the transaction of the EU member states and the EU bureaucracy. The latter is being forced to cut its budget because it is short of money. The eurocrats can't bribe the member states if it does not have the cash. It is ironic that the cash being used to make the bribes belong to the member states in the first place. How grateful they are when the eurocrats give them some of their money back. It's a scheme (protection racket)) worthy of the world's big criminal organisations. Bet the Mafia wished they had thought of it. Ask your self, if the EU is so well off why is it so desperate to obtain the UK divorce payment.
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@Soordhin the EU is offering nothing for the divorce payment. It is an insult because the uk has always been one of the op three contributors to the EU budget. The EU has shown its contempt for he UK by stealing a further billion in R&D costs for the Galileo project. The EU wants the uk to fund its competitors after it leaves the EU, while at the same time trying to engineer the terms of leaving so that the UK will not become a competitor for the EU after brexit. As far as the money being a minor matter, I suggest you take a look at the blackhole in the EU budget following brexit. If the UK is in such a poor position, then it should never have been a net contributor to the EU budget in the first place. Maybe the UK should be seeking a repayment of all it's past contributions, plus the payment of all the money it should have received from the EU budget over the years of membership. You really cannot have it both ways.
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